With the passing of the sands of time comes another NBA draft season, and with another NBA draft season comes a new group of human beings that enter the public consciousness. …

Two pop musicians at drastically different points in their artistic development released records this week. Are either worth the listen? Let’s dig in! John Mayer — Sob Rock After 2018’s ‘New Light’ saw Mayer dipping his toe into the 80’s funk/disco pastiche that has dominated popular music for nearly a decade, he jumps headlong into…

Co-written by Isaac O’Neill and Chris Howson-Jan Click here for Part 1 USA The U.S. Senior Team walks into the tournament with almost every alpha in the league. Their top nine is unassailable, containing a plurality of the 20 or so best players in the league. The two-way play, shooting…

Yesterday, the Houston Rockets traded James Harden to the Brooklyn Nets. While the acquisition of Harden is certainly the most interesting thing about the deal, he wasn’t the only player on the move. The blockbuster deal was essentially several trades in one: The Rockets acquired players and draft picks from…

To read more about the year in music, click here and here 2020 was supposed to be BTS’ year. Already the best selling musical act of all time in their native South Korea, the seven piece boy band has only continued to grow globally over the last few years. In…

To read more about the music that defined 2020, click here. The 1975 have always rode a perilous line in terms of good taste. When they first broke out in the early 2010s, many (myself included) dismissed them as a group that had come a few years late to the…

In July 2020, Taylor Swift unexpectedly dropped her eighth and, depending on who you ask, best album, folklore. It was another musical left turn in a career that’s already had several, with Swift retreating from the more outwardly abrasive aesthetics of Reputation and Lover in favour of a folkier, more…

Co-written by Isaac O’Neill and Chris Howson-Jan * Houston’s placement is contingent on a James Harden trade; if Harden plays out the season in Houston I’d place Houston in the 8–10 range. It seems impossible to believe, but the NBA season is upon us once again. After a heavily truncated…

At times it can be insidiously easy for a film to ascribe meaning to itself. We’ve all had the experience: you’re watching a movie, not particularly enjoying it, when suddenly some combination of images, ideas, and music stirs something in you emotionally. You realize, likely even as it’s happening, that…